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W. H. SHEPPARD. LIGHTING IMPLBMENT.

No. 519,354. Patented May 8,1894.

Wzesses yUNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM HY. SHEPPARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LIGHTING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,354, dated May 8,1894. Application led December 18, 1893- Serial No. 493,951. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HY. SHEP- PARD, of the city of New York,county and State of New York, have invented an Improved LightingImplement, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an implement for turning the cocks of electricand gas lights, and which is so constructed, that the handle may bebrought out of line with the grasping jaws while the implement is inuse.

Heretot'ore in reaching more or less inaccessible places, the arm had tobe held in line with the cock while turning the same, and it frequentlyhappened, that when the arm was involuntarily lowered, the sockets andother parts of electric plants became broken. To obviate this difficultyand allow the light to be extinguished by revolving the implement out ofline with the" cock or switch is the object of this invention.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is an elevation of my improvedlighting implement, showing the spring bent. Fig. 2 is a similarelevation, at right angles to Fig. l, and showing the spring straight,and Fig. 3 is an end view of the jaw b.

The letter a, represents the handle ot' the implement, and b is the jaw,preferably made box-shaped and adapted to grasp the cock A oli' a gas orelectric light. That is to say the jaw constitutes a rectangular socket,closed at the four sides and open at the top (Fig. 3). Between the jawor jaws and the handle, I

interpose a spiral spring c, so that the handle and jaw may be broughtout of line. The spring c, must be sufficiently sti, to permit therevolving motion of the handle to be trans- In use, the jaw b is causedto grasp the cock A, and then the arm may be lowered before the handleis revolved. The lowering of the handle will cause the spring c, tocurve (Fig. l), and will not cause undue strain to be exerted upon thecock. In this way, the various parts of the light will not becomestrained or injured by an untrue movement of the implement. By makingthe 'jaw boxshaped, it will retain its engagement with the cock, againstthe iniuence of the bent spring.

What I claim is p A lighting implement composed of a revoluble handle, aspring and a rectangular jaw closed at the sides and open at the top,and which is adapted to be revolved by the revolution of the handle,substantially as specified.

WILLIAM HY. SHEPPARD.

Witnesses:

. F. v. BRIESEN, WM. SCHULZ.

